NFAT functions as a working memory of Ca2+ signals in decoding Ca2+ oscillation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 3825-3832

  Tomida, Taichiro ^a   Hirose, Kenzo ^a   Takizawa, Azusa ^a   Shibasaki, Futoshi ^b   Iino, Masamitsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ca2+ oscillation; Calcineurin; Frequency dependence; NFAT; Nuclear translocation

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; GENE TRANSLOCATION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CRICETINAE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0042525949     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg381     Document Type: Article

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